Chapter Twenty-Four: Xia Fu

When the Taoist chief caught the two of them, Yun casually was playing with a group of children throwing firecrackers, crackling, and looking happy. Rong Youze lay comfortably on the branch of a nearby tree, watching the group of children throw firecrackers. The tree looks tenacious, but it looks precarious.

The Taoist chief breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. At least these two men are complete, not unkempt or missing arms or legs. Seeing that it was the Taoist who came, Rong He neatly turned down from the tree and smiled at him, causing the children's eyes to widen and marvel.

"What did you find?" he asked, beckoning to Yun casually to come over. This little girl was playing happily, and when she saw her calling over, she had to pout and move towards him, wishing that her feet had roots growing here, and the distance that could be completed in three or four steps was almost the time to drag her a pillar of incense.

One of the tiger-headed children couldn't figure out who Yun Random's father was, but he felt that these two seemed to be very good at talking, so he deliberately shouted: "Yun Random, you are leaving, it's still so early!"

Seeing this, the other children echoed him. They knew that Yun casually said that she was not from Jinling, so it was rare for them to come and play with them once today, and they might not be able to meet them in the future. In addition, she can "play tricks", so she is very happy with this group of children, so those children are shouting very urgently, and for a while it seems that hundreds of ducks open their voices at the same time, and all the sparrows that were originally in the trees fly away, which is really lively.

The Taoist has always had no way to deal with children, and then looked at Yun Xian, who was still moving slowly, sighed in his heart, and said with a smile: "Go, go, don't run far." I'll pick you up when I'm here. ”

Before he finished speaking, Yun casually jumped back into the children's pile, and at the end he secretly glanced at the Dao Chief, for fear that he would take back his life with the next sentence. The Taoist smiled helplessly, walked two or three steps to the side, conjured a thousand paper cranes from the palm of his hand, and whispered a word, and the thousand paper cranes fluttered and flew to the tree, tilting its paper head to look at the children.

"Okay, now rest assured, right?" Rong He couldn't help but tease him. The Taoist chief glanced back at them again, and then briefly recounted what he had seen and heard in the drunken face house, and added the causes and consequences of their meeting with Shen Qianqian. Rong He has always reacted very quickly, and after listening to this, he said: "Let's go to Xia Mansion, right? But what happens after we go? If they refuse to admit it, we will still rob the people?"

The Taoist took out his teacup and turned it in the palm of his hand: "At present, I can only take one step at a time." Robbing the people is the worst plan. It's just immoral. ”

The two of them chatted like this, looking for the location of the Xia Mansion everywhere based on the impression that Rong had come to Jinling. But somehow the surroundings are getting more and more desolate, and even pedestrians are gradually becoming scarce. The Taoist chief never knew that there was such a desolate boundary in Jinling City, where every inch of land was valuable, and the mansions on both sides of the road were full of artemisia grass, rubble scattered, and a dilapidated scene.

"Mistaken?" the Taoist asked, turning his head to him.

"No, it won't. Rong He closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and then said with great certainty: "This is it." As he spoke, he stepped forward and looked up at the cobweb-strewn gate, on which was the word "Xia Fu". Based on the vermilion lacquer that has not yet peeled off on this gate and the regulation of the courtyard wall, it is not difficult to imagine how prosperous it should be in its year. But now it has ended up in such a field, which can't help but make people sigh.

Somehow an old man happened to walk by the side of the road, Rong He immediately stepped forward and saluted, and then asked, "May I ask this old man, how can this Xia Mansion be so declining?"

The Taoist chief glanced at the old man carefully, and did not say much, but felt very interesting in his heart.

The old man glanced at the two of them, and at first he was very reluctant, but then he couldn't stand Rong and asked again and again, so he had to speak: "That summer, I originally married Miss Yin Fu and went north to be an official, but later I was found to be guilty of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and I was beheaded all over the house, and all the maids and servants were exiled. ”

Speaking of this, the old man's face was full of regret: "Tian Wu was such a good child before, and he often helped us ordinary people. Why did you learn badly?"

Rong and Dao Chang glanced at each other, and then asked, "So that Xia Wu is dead now?"

"Not yet, it's probably only been these two days. The old man coughed a few times, obviously too emotional. Then he waved his hand again and again: "I can't say it anymore, this matter was in a uproar before, and the court said that it can't be discussed on the street." As for me, my cow was bought with the help of the people of Xiafu. I'll tell you that my cow is called a ...... when it ploughs the field."

The old man began to talk endlessly again. Rong He really didn't want to hear the legendary story of the cow, so he said: "Thank you, uncle" and wanted to take the Taoist away. As a result, the Taoist chief followed and deliberately said to the old man: "Thank you, little friend." He was so angry that he started coughing again.